Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Sepia Saturday 67 : 26 March 2011

From the collections of The National Archives, via Flickr Commons Initiative

My archive photograph this week is full of activity and full of detail. The photograph dates from the mid 1930s and shows the reconstruction of the bridge over the River Loughor at Pontardulais in Wales. It is taken from one of the copyright-free collections shared by the British National Archives with the splendid Flickr Commons initiative. For the "themers" amongst the Sepia Saturday participants there are a wealth of prompts available. For the "memers" just enjoy the image as you choose your own old photograph. In either case, post your contributions for Sepia Saturday 67 on or around Saturday 26th March 2011.

SEPIA SATURDAYis a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn't have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. There is no weekly theme, as such, but some people like to use the archive image published with the weekly call as a kind of theme. There is no requirement to adopt such an approach : the choice of image is entirely up to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.

I will post something else but I hope everyone who leaves a comment here will check out this link: Copy and paste it to your browser and it will take you to the building of a fabulous bridge which is 100 years old this year.

Margaret & Postcardy : We tend to be very relaxed about such things here on Sepia Saturday, so I suppose "around Saturday" can mean almost any day of the week. So feel free to post early if you wish, but people will not tend to read the posts until the weekend.Bob S : Do you know I shame to say that I have never actually seen the Transporter Bridge, something I will put right during its centenary year.

I am trying to get in earlier this week so I will have time to visit and comment before everybody says what I would have said if they hadn't already said it! Another post on the Tulane/Vincent family and how I found Ubert's grandparents. Several (new) old sepia photos too.

Hi Alan, I'm sorry, the first one that I posted was wrong. Happy Birthday, Cary is the correct sepia post. I really, really enjoy the photo of building the bridge that you posted for this week. It is so interesting, full of history, and after seeing the picture I can imagine how they built the bridge.

Hey, I'm not late for a change :-) couldn't find a photo that fitted with Alan's, so went with the one that was yelling at me :-) it's cute. Looking forward to seeing what everyone else posts this weekend. Jo

I have never even considered how a bridge was built so this was very interesting to me. There seems to be a lot of on-lookers for sure. I have one of the first lady dresses up. Of course I love vintage fashions you see.QMM

One more snowy photo while spring is trying to break through! lol. One from the 1920's! We actually had snow flurries in Ohio today with blooming daffodils...very typical for us in March. Brrrr. Looking forward to visiting all of you!

I am grateful to you for getting me thinking about the utility and stability of bridges this week. I looked over all of our family pictures for photos with bridges and was surprise that the bridges we visited the most (Golden Gate!) weren't represented at all.

I almost didn't post again after another busy week, but I had bridge construction photos, so how could I not! I love this photo and the peek into the little town as well as the construction. I'll have to see if I can figure out if this is anywhere near where my great-grandparents came from.

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.